"EPA Floats Task Force to Address Cyberattacks on Water Infrastructure"

Recent cyberattacks on water plants have driven the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to form a task force aimed at addressing the security risks that water infrastructure providers face. Attacks on US water and wastewater facilities could put a "critical lifeline" at risk and inflict significant costs on impacted communities, according to a letter from White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and EPA Administrator Michael Regan to state governors. The letter mentioned two recent high-profile actions by nation-state-aligned threat groups as examples of the dangers that cyberattacks pose to the nation's water systems. The first was a series of attacks by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group connected to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The Cyber Av3ngers gang targeted Internet-facing Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), one of which is owned by Pennsylvania’s Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. This article continues to discuss the establishment of a task force to identify strategies for reducing the risk of cyberattacks against water systems.

SC Media reports "EPA Floats Task Force to Address Cyberattacks on Water Infrastructure"

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